Why does neither Microsoft nor Google nor Apple take the lead and offer free LLM answers like Google offers free search results?
Is that because there are simply not enough GPUs out there to do this at scale?
If so, it will become really interesting once that constraint goes away. There might be a shift in the search space like there was a shift from analog to digital photography.
This is about storing data in the form of "Facebook user XYZ looked at a page about travel to Antarctica" and the reason Facebook wants to store such data is to show them travel offers when they read their Facebook feed?
If so, can I download this data about me? Is there a way to download everything Facebook stores about me and then I will see all the websites and pages I visited that Facebook knows about?
For example, if a user specifically asks for a
URL's full text, it might inadvertently fulfill
this request.
So this seems to imply two things:
1: Bing has access to text on websites which users don't. Probably because websites allow Bing to crawl their content but show a paywall to users?
2: The plugin has a different interface to Bing than what Bing offers via the web. Because on the web, you can't tell Bing to show the full text of the URL.
I have to contact my ISP. That's not the open web I subscribed to :) Until they fix it, I just keep reading HN. A website which works the way I like it.
What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative?
Hosting the posts shouldn't be that hard. Storage is so cheap these days. Is it the legal aspects of handling user generated content?
Ranking the posts is another issue. Is that where the value of Reddit lies?
Maybe one could build some hybrid thing which capitalizes on existing structures? I could imagine a frontend which only shows posts by users who signed their posts via their Hacker News accounts. Aka they sign their post with a private key and publish the public key on their HN profile. This way, a new Reddit alternative could benefit from the karma distribution of the best community on the web today.
Hosting the content could maybe be done via one of the new decentralized systems like Mastodon, Nostr or Bluesky? Those inherently have open APIs, so it would be easy to build a frontend which aggregates the content into one simple UI.
Any indie makers here doing their taxes on their own?
So far, I have always worked with a tax consultant. But I wonder if it really makes sense to pay thousands of Euros just to put numbers into forms. It feels like it is something that one should be able to automate.
Its also all kinds of code that interacts with the internet in all kinds of ways. Extending all that code to two kinds of IPs, writing tests, setting up two types of IPs in development, staging and production, monitoring real life implications ... that would be a huge cost with no benefit at all.
It got pretty much unnoticed on HN, that Europe recently voted to make all crypto payments illegal unless the seller collects the personal data of the buyer. Independent of the amount. So there will be a track record of everything bought via crypto.
Is it only a matter of time until cash is going away globally, and states have access to everything their people buy?
Regarding end-2-end encryption: It does not prevent a government from reading your messages anyhow. They could instruct Meta (or whichever company is in control of the app you use) to send them the the messages you write directly from your phone. Or from the phone of the receiver. Or to send them the private key from your phone. They could also ask Apple or Google to do so, since those have acceess to everything on your phone.
Say you put the message you just posted through Google to correct style, facts and spelling. You know how it would reply? Here we go:
The text is pretty awesome. I would only suggest changing the word "interleaving" to "interspersing" to improve the style of the text. "Interspersing" is an alternative term for "mixing" or "adding in between," which better conveys the idea of placing ads within search results. You know what I would also change? Your <related product>. Since you seem to be deep into technology in general and the internet in particular, you will love <related product>. Since you wrote such a thoughtful text about ads, I will tell you the secret discount code "adsMakesMeSmile" to get <related product> 10% off.
Releasing a LLM would not kill Google's revenue. It would increase it. Because more people would use Google than before. And they could still show relevant ads.
The big question is if they can catch up with OpenAI. OpenAI is a moving target. And it seems they are moving fast.
It could still be possible that Google catches up because of the UI though. Many people don't like having to log in to ChatGPT. Bing's UI is a disaster and you have to log in.
I always thought that Google won the search war not only because of their good search results, but also because of their clean UI.
The combination of your "CPU as undefined, Memory as 8GB, Platform as MacIntel" can still be used to fingerprint you. Independent of whether the values represent your actual hardware or not.
And they are probably not even red herrings. undefind CPU simply means you use a certain type of browser that does not provide this value. 8GB memory probably means "8GB or more". MacIntel might simply be interpreted as "Some Mac".
Is that because there are simply not enough GPUs out there to do this at scale?
If so, it will become really interesting once that constraint goes away. There might be a shift in the search space like there was a shift from analog to digital photography.